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...While jobless, Washer paid $25 for a painting in a secondhand bookstore in Los Angeles. Later, art experts verified it as an old master by Italy's Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, appraised it at $100,000. Washer still...
Kuhlne and his neighbor, Isaac Ford, scraped together their ready cash, bought an ancient gasoline "logging donkey" and some secondhand cable. They hired a truck and a driver, and started salvaging...
...about the vote - that Wisconsin was voting for 100-proof, Regular Republicanism. Willkie himself said in New York this week : "This election was a triumph for the county chairmen." In effect, all members of the Willkie Irregulars were soundly trounced. Wisconsin voted against even what seemed to them like secondhand New Dealism...
...Farmer P. L. Peterson, 59, had a record year. He hired a man (at $7 a day); paid $1,000 to have his combining done; paid $1,000 in old seed loans, $800 in back taxes, $400 in income taxes; bought a seed drill, a wind charger, a secondhand Ford, an electric cream separator, a washing machine, an electric iron and a radio; surfaced the road leading up to the highway. He still had money left to buy war bonds and plunk in the bank...
Three years ago, he had to expand his Sav-Way Industries. As he started to build a new plant, WPB banned steel construction. Saffady got around this. He bought quantities of secondhand pipe, worked out a method of welding it into girders, built his own plant while less ingenious folk sat and grumbled. When he found it impossible to buy vitally needed internal grinders, he designed and built his own. They worked out so well that, at $5,900 each, he has already sold...